I had the same issue when using softraid and it kept marking it as offline when clearly it was fine (I think the UUID was detected wrong). I used to have to go into the webpage mark it as online, do a quick reload, and resync the directory. I had the issue when one of the MD's was turned off then back on again (daily).

Same story for me- my second (media) drive has the "online" checkbox in its device data section unchecked. Once I check it, the media is available again. How can I get this setting to be persistent. I've done a global upgrade but that doesn't seem to have resolved it. Any ideas? Also not sure if shutting down an MD is what causes it to become unchecked.... will test that now.

Yup, that's it. I shut down one of the media directors and, when it starts again, it seems to take the drive (on the core) offline for some reason?

first on the core and then on the MD ?Not sure if necessary, but shutdown and rebooted everyting after that. Only the MythTV crashing problem was then there. Did not yet have time to try the fix for that.

first on the core and then on the MD ?Not sure if necessary, but shutdown and rebooted everyting after that. Only the MythTV crashing problem was then there. Did not yet have time to try the fix for that.

Not exactly, I used L3mce's global_upgrades script which is a pretty neat alternative and I think it does practically the same thing. However, I did not shut down the core after that I think so perhaps I'll do that. Shut it down, un plug it, count to 10 and stuff. Kind of a windows approach but worth a shot ;-)

Definitely not resolved. To confirm behaviour- I can get to a movie by doing a "search" and typing any letter on the screen and then I can select it and play it fine but none displayed in the default grid/list when I pop up movies from the media menu.

It seems to be, as stated, the drive being marked as offline everytime a media director starts up. In other words, after manually marking the drive as "online" in the webadmin device details, the movies all appear. Then, shutting down any of the MDs doesn't affect it but as soon as one of them starts up, it disappears again.

I'll search for the ticket because Thom mentioned earlier this had been resolved. Perhaps that'll give me some clues.

Edit: Couldn't find the ticket. Next step, I'll watch the logs when starting an MD and see if I can pick up the event that is causing the drive to go offline.

I could search for movies and find them but under videos all was blank.

Hope this helps.

No, thanks for the idea but I'm pretty sure it's not that. I've fiddled with all the sort by settings and the movies don't appear at all but you can make them appear by marking the drive online in the webadmin. Something is setting the drive to offline occasionally.

Weird.... so the core sets the drive online when it starts up the script and thinks it is still online the whole time. Which is not surprising because the code doesn't actually check the drive status each time via the database... it just checks what it was set to last time. Which is fine if last time it was set, it was set from this script.... but what if it was set somewhere else... like the same script on one of the MDs....